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02-Nov-2014 Solitary Confinement

Taking a look back at the jiva diary for last week we see… nothing… absolutely, nothing. It all started with Jimmy’s man flu the week before, and Val was struck down a few days later – we’ve both started on the road to recovery but, like a double dip recession, we’ve fallen back again. So we’ve kept ourselves to ourselves, alternating between bursts of computer activity, a little bit of songwriting, some attempts at trying out our voices, and lots of rest.

We did manage one trip out – we had to do the weekly Tesco shop, so ventured into Newcastle on the way. That was mostly uninspiring with most shops and streets heaving with hordes of people – but we did squeeze in a visit to GuitarGuitar to thank them for their invitation to a Taylor Guitars Roadshow (which, unfortunately, we had to miss!). We asked whether anything special/new had come up at the event, but there was nothing that took our fancy… except… except… a hollowbody Cocobolo T5. What a beautiful guitar – Val spent more time playing it than Jimmy did (that must be a first) but, as we don’t have £4,000 just hanging around, common sense prevailed. At least for now.

Our next few scheduled appearances are shown below... details of these, and later gigs, are on our Gig List page. Additionally, we regularly pop in to residents nights and singarounds to do the occasional floor spot.